Character Design Challenge - September

During September i entered the character design challenge which is an online Facebook group that releases a theme every month and from it a character is created. The theme for September was Centaur which i had initially thought to be a really boring theme but after talking with friends we got some ideas going with an initially steam punk with spider legs centaur. This in the end became a victorian centaur ignoring the steampunk aesthetic as i wanted to try and create a character that had life and personality as that is a part of character design, not just the visuals but also the back story behind it. I also wanted to use this as an opportunity to practice photoshop drawing, painting and shading as well as using textures to try and make a more interesting character in colour. With the design i wanted to make her more rounded as 1. victorians were quite chunky (the films lie as do the corsets!) and 2. a horses body is very broad, for the hip to fit on the shoulders and look natural she was going to have to be a much larger woman. with the face i closed her eyes as it had fallen into the uncanny valley too much and was looking really strange as i had done the dress realistic while the face was more cartoony.